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Statement import

From statement
to ledger.

Each line of the statement becomes an entry. The clean ones go in; anything uncertain waits for you.

Example: a fictional statement for 1 to 18 September with six lines. Bolt €3.16 is categorised as Transport, Lidl €31.60 as Groceries, Treats for Otis €12.40 as Pets and Alex’s salary €3,143.90 as income, and all four are added. Hardware Store €43.46 (Household) may already be in the ledger and McDonald’s €18.39 (Eating out) has an unreadable date, so both wait in the review queue.

A fictional statement. Nothing is uploaded.
  1. Start with the statement. Each line is read from the page: the date, what the bank wrote and the amount.
  2. Every entry gets a category. Bolt is Transport, Lidl is Groceries, the salary is income. Each in its own colour.
  3. You decide what goes in. Four are added. A possible repeat and a smudged date wait in your review queue.
Category learning

You know the payment. Kahu remembers the place.

Choose where a familiar payment belongs, once. When that shop turns up again, Kahu files it the same way, and you can still change it.

Example: a Lidl payment of €54.20 on 2 September is sorted as Groceries. Kahu keeps the rule “description contains LIDL means Groceries”. On 16 September a Lidl payment of €31.60 is filed as Groceries without any sorting.

Sample payments
  1. You sort it once. The first Lidl payment gets a category, like any other.
  2. Kahu keeps a rule. It sits beside your payments and watches every new one for LIDL.
  3. The next one sorts itself. Two weeks later a new Lidl payment arrives. The rule finds it and files it as Groceries. You can still change it.

Next: Review queue

Every decision leaves a trail.